11 month old daycare sleep

My 11 month old LO sleeps through the night from roughly 6:30PM - 6AM without a fuss!

On weekends, he takes two naps - totally 1.5-2 hours. He falls asleep on his own for both night sleep and naps (at home)

He goes to daycare... and rarely naps over an hour, MAYBE 1.5 on a good day.

Daycare will not put him down awake because they fear they will cry and wake other kids (i am guessing and they state there are some rules they can't have them awake in a crib??). He is not used to going to bed being rocked or with a bottle.

I want to ensure he gets good naps at daycare, but not sure what to do.

I have talked to them about naps and stressed it. Some days he only gets a 45 minute nap, which results in him falling asleep on the way home and i have to wake him up (he is exhausted and is crabby until bedtime).

Hi! don't have any advice but we have been going through the same thing since she started daycare at 3 months...she rarely naps there sometimes only has two 30 minute naps all day and then ends up falling asleep on the way home which wrecks havoc on bedtime....She's in such a terrible mood until we put her down for bed and lately for the past week has been crying for at least 30 minutes before falling asleep for the night. Its been so so tough! At my LOs daycare they do allow them in the crib when they are awake and have a designated nap time with soft music and dim lights but there is just so much going on at all times its hard for her to get a quality nap in. Its frustrating!!! I say all that to say I'm right there with you and know what you are going through! Hang in there Mama!!!

I also have no advice, sorry, but we are in the same boat!! My lo is an excellent sleeper/napper, except at daycare. Most days she only gets two 20 min naps there. It's sucks! But I don't think there's anything they/I can do about it. Most days she falls asleep in the car ride home and sleeps for another 30+ minutes.

My DD is getting a little better with her naps at daycare but it has never been great. They do put them down awake. I'm surprised your daycare would rather rock them, that seems like more work to me. Anyways, with my DD I consider myself lucky because she will sleep through the night no matter what. On the days that she comes home tired from daycare she can literally fall asleep at 5 when we get home and sleep straight through to 7 the next morning, with me waking her around 7 at night just to have a bottle. She used to do this all the time and I just hated it because I felt like I didn't get to spend any time with her. She only does that once in a while now.